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PeerJ is a year old tomorrow!

June 11, 2013

Here’s a thing … Looks like the first ever mention of PeerJ on this blog was a year and nine days ago. All we said in that first post was “… the proliferation of other publishing experiments such as F1000 Research and PeerJ …” with no further comment.

Since then it’s cropped up all the time on SV-POW! — and for all the obvious reasons. Matt and I both see it as a game-changer, eating academic journals from “below”, and preprint servers and scholarly blogs from “above”. It’s certainly had an eventful year!

We wish it all the best in its second year. And its third, fourth and fifth years, and all the ones after that.

Thanks Heinrich, and certainly we understand the unnecessary constraints that some academics are placed under when choosing where to publish. The good news is that we are in process for an ISI listing, and when we are selected then the listing is indeed applied retroactively.

Meanwhile, you can provide people with a lot more information about your publication by presenting them with the alt-metrics it accrues, which include actual citations, usage, referrals, tweets etc (as opposed to a simple indication of whether or not the journal it was published in also published some good papers a few years ago…)

Oh how I wish all that IF nonsense would go away. Interestingly, the alternative (actual citations), which has issues of itself, often does not work well with Big Publishing (they miss a lot of citations) – I wonder if there is a business interest acting.